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SALTER, WILLIAM MILLET (1827-1906)

SALTER, WILLIAM MILLET, clerk and business manager; b. Newcastle, 6 Nov 1827, s/o William Salter and Mary Caroline Millet; m. 1881, Marion Elizabeth Jack, of Springfield, N.B.; d. Chatham 20 Aug 1906.

W. Millet Salter studied at the grammar schools in Chatham and Newcastle under Archibald Gray and John H. Sivewright respectively, and after leaving school apprenticed as a clerk with Gilmour, Rankin & Co. As a young man he was an officer in the militia, being promoted to captain in the 3rd Battalion in 1850. In 1861 he was employed with Alexander Morrison, who had also been a clerk in the offices of Gilmour and Rankin. In the 1870s he worked at Burnt Church with the firm of Loggie & Anderson, of which he was described as being "in charge" in 1875 (that is, the year after the death of John Anderson). While thus employed he doubled as the first postmaster of Burnt Church (1873-78). He was subsequently clerk, or manager of the law office of Lemuel J. Tweedie in Chatham and was said to have been well-liked by all.

In 1881 Salter, at age fifty-four, married M. Elizabeth Jack, age twenty-two. The daughter of a Presbyterian minister, she had come to Rock Heads a year previously to teach school. The union produced seven children. One of the sons was the Rev. B. Chalmers Salter, a Presbyterian-United Church minister in the Maritimes. Another was Prof. Frederick Millet Salter, LLD, FRSC, a member of faculty of the University of Alberta in the field of English, on whom there is biographical information in Who's Who in Canada and other well-known publications.

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[b] church records [m] Telegraph 2 Nov 1881 [d] World 22 Aug 1906 / Advocate 6 Oct 1875; Gleaner 5 Feb 1850; MacManus; News 11 Dec 1985; Who's Who Can. 1956 (re. Frederick Millet Salter)


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